In a dark corner of Scots nationalism, intolerance lurks

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There have been no masked rioters on the street, no tear gas, no water cannons. On the scale of terror tactics, the protests scarcely register. But intimidation and the threat of violence are beginning to stain the referendum campaign in Scotland, raising the question of whether the behaviour we are seeing is the ugly face of nationalism.

Routinely, in some areas, No posters are being defaced, Better Together speakers drowned out by chanting mobs, cars with pro-Union stickers damaged, social media used to berate anyone foolhardy enough to voice an anti-SNP opinion: never has the word Quisling been used quite